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means A single human being, considered as an individual with a name, a body, and a legal or social identity.

from From Latin 'persona,' which originally meant a theatrical mask worn by actors to project a character's voice (per- 'through' + sonare 'to sound') — the mask you spoke through. The word drifted from the mask itself to the character played, then to the role one holds in law or society, and finally to the individual human underneath it all. So 'person' carries, buried in its root, the ghost of a mask — fitting for a word that still has to referee all the roles a single self is asked to play.